Book Me Up: Creating a Book Suggestion App

The rise of apps and mobile devices has opened the door to small, dedicated software programs that are focused on singular tasks. From my perspective as head of digital access and web service manager at Montana State University, these apps offered an opportunity to build a focused digital service ai...

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Published inComputers in Libraries Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 15 - 19
Main Author Clark, Jason
Format Magazine Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Westport Information Today, Inc 01.06.2012
Subjects
Academic libraries
Algorithms
Cellular telephones
Computers
Data mining
Digital libraries
Electronic Libraries
Internet
Internet access
Internet service providers
JavaScript
Libraries
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Portable computers
Portals
Programming languages
Readers advisory work
Reference services
Research Needs
Skills
Smartphones
Software
Web Browsers
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ISSN1041-7915

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Summary:The rise of apps and mobile devices has opened the door to small, dedicated software programs that are focused on singular tasks. From my perspective as head of digital access and web service manager at Montana State University, these apps offered an opportunity to build a focused digital service aimed at allowing someone to enter a search for a title or subject, match an item, and then receive a list of suggested related items. In essence, it would be a user-mediated reader's advisory. The result was BookMeUp, a web app prototype incorporating many of the emerging features of HTML5 to work across smartphone and tablet platforms as well as on the traditional desktop.
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ISSN:1041-7915